Here's what we think former President Trump might say in Erie stump speech

What will Donald Trump say when he returns to the Erie Insurance Arena Saturday for an early 2024 campaign appearance?

If history is any guide, the 45th president will unroll a thread of grievances about President Joe Biden, his GOP rivals and the state and federal prosecutors who have successfully sought grand jury indictments against him.

Biden bashing

The twice-indicted, twice impeached former president will step up his attacks on Biden, both for the influx of immigrants coming into the United States since Biden took office and other policy issues, but also for his son Hunter Biden's plea agreement on misdemeanor tax evasion charges and his business dealings with China and Ukraine. The GOP is pushing to impeach Biden for claims that he used his political influence improperly.

The 'witch hunt'

Three names that will likely end up in Trump's stump speech?

• Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who's prosecuting Trump on 34 felony charges tied to a hush-money scheme that involved payouts to porn star Stormy Daniels and others;

• Special Counsel Jack Smith who has been investigating Trump for improperly taking classified documents and then trying to keep them, and his involvement in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump was arrested in the documents case after a grand jury returned a 37-count felony indictment last month. Last week, Trump said he's received a target letter from Smith about the election case, signaling that he could be indicted again soon;

• Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, who is also probing Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including in an infamous phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump asked the officials to find him more than 11,000 votes to overcome Biden's margin of victory.

Second-term plans

New policy ideas: Trump in recent months has unveiled plans for a second term to hold a contest to design and create up to 10 new "freedom" cities. He's also weighed into so-called parent's rights issues when it comes to education and has floated the idea that school principals should be elected by voters. He'll hit on bread-and-butter issues for conservatives, like the economy, the military and abortion.

Trump, during a speech in Pickens, South Carolina, in early July, took credit for appointing three justices to the U.S. Supreme Court who last year overturned Roe v. Wade. But he also appeared to acknowledge that the issue was costly for the party at the ballot box during the 2022 midterms.

"That’s a great issue, but the Republicans have to understand that issue better," he said. "They have to speak about it better. Have to speak about it better."

Matthew Rink can be reached at mrink@timesnews.com or on Twitter at @ETNRink.

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